ALONG THE STEPS OF A LIFETIME
8 - Starts his lessons in Jurisprudence
Padua
Giuseppe Tartini was the fourth of nine children, and as was the custom of the time in large families the eldest son was destined to inherit their father’s fortune while, for others, an ecclesiastical career often beckoned. Giuseppe's father also dreamed of this kind of career for his son and so, to provide him with a good education, he sent him to the University of Padua to study law. Tartini arrived there wearing a clerical habit, without having already taken the vows. The ecclesiastical career in fact was of no interest the young man who preferred to devote his time to the study of the violin, against his parents’ will, and especially to duelling with the sword. To continue the art of sword fighting he was prepared to move to Paris or Naples just to open a school of the martial arts, until destiny made him change his mind.
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